Heaven-Dominating Martial Emperor

Finally, Ye Chen punched the Profound Armor Combat Puppet out of the sky. Its massive body fell like a kite with a snapped string, smashing heavily into the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust.

Gu Tianyu desperately tried to activate the Profound Armor Combat Puppet, but it was completely unresponsive, not moving an inch.

His heart sank.

It was true. He had lost control of the Profound Armor Combat Puppet.

The soul imprint on it had been completely erased!

"Damn it!" Gu Tianyu was heartbroken. He hadn't felt this much pain even when Da Meng died right in front of him!

But he had no time for grief. He turned and shot off into the distance, a streak of light.

"Trying to run? After all this, you should know it's futile!"

The Ancient God Order came crashing down, smashing Gu Tianyu out of the sky.

Ye Chen had never figured out the true purpose of this treasure, which he'd seized from the abbot of Vajra Temple. In battle, however, it could unleash a power so immense that no one dared underestimate it.

Gu Tianyu scrambled to his feet, a pathetic sight. He was covered in blood, his aura weak and his expression ghastly.

"Must you really be so ruthless?"

"You should know I am the young master of the Cyan Ape Tribe!"

"Leave a way out, and we can meet again on better terms! I promise, if you spare me, all past grievances between us will be forgotten!"

"But if you refuse! Even if I die, the Cyan Ape Tribe will hunt you to the ends of the earth and give you no peace for the rest of your life!"

Gu Tianyu clutched his chest, gasping heavily. His face was as pale as a sheet. Having lost all will and strength to fight, he could only play his background as a trump card, hoping to make his opponent hesitate.

However, Ye Chen's expression didn't so much as twitch.

"Once you decided to drop all pretenses, you should have been prepared for this outcome."

"At a time like this, you're still dreaming of clinging to life? Do you really think I'd allow that?"

With a flick of his finger, Ye Chen sent the Ancient God Order hurtling toward Gu Tianyu in a brilliant, explosive stream of light!

"Bastard! You'll regret this!" Gu Tianyu roared. In his despair and fury, his body was utterly pulverized by the Ancient God Order.

Thus, a peerless prodigy of his generation, one on the verge of stepping into the Divinity Transformation realm and comparable to countless old monsters, had fallen.

After eliminating Gu Tianyu, Ye Chen collected his and Da Meng's Storage Rings.

As the young master of the Cyan Ape Tribe, Gu Tianyu should have had plenty of treasures. Ye Chen was quite looking forward to seeing them.

But after a careful look, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

To be honest, he looked down on most of the Cultivation Techniques and martial arts inside.

After obtaining the Demon God Creation Skill, his mind was now filled with many powerful martial arts and Cultivation Techniques, all of a far higher grade than anything Gu Tianyu possessed.

As for the Spirit Stones... Ye Chen carried a Spiritual Spring with him, which was like having a limitless supply of low-grade Spirit Stones, so he cared even less about those.

Only the various heavenly materials, earthly treasures, Spirit Medicines, and Spirit Pills were of any real interest to Ye Chen.

With his current Alchemy Skill and these new Spirit Medicines and materials, he could now refine even more powerful pills.

For example, the Fourth Grade Realm-Breaking Pill!

Once he stepped into the Primordial Mansion Realm, he could consume a Fourth Grade Realm-Breaking Pill to advance his cultivation even further.

There was also the Life Creation Pill.

This was an extremely high-grade pill that he couldn't yet refine at his current realm, but he could create a substitute.

All in all, these Spirit Medicines and materials were the most helpful items for him right now. Everything else was dispensable—nice to have, but not essential.

Of course, the greatest prize from this encounter was the Profound Armor Combat Puppet.

Ye Chen walked over to the Profound Armor Combat Puppet and examined it carefully.

The grotto spirit and Song Yubing followed him.

The Profound Armor Combat Puppet was damaged all over, but in some of the broken sections, one could faintly see divine materials emitting a golden glow.

This showed that the materials used to forge this Profound Armor Combat Puppet were likely extraordinary.

"The soul imprint on it is gone. You can refine it and make it your own."

"However, given how damaged it is, I'm afraid it would struggle to exert the power of even the Eighth or Ninth Layer of the Primordial Mansion Realm."

The grotto spirit glanced at the Profound Armor Combat Puppet on the ground, sighed softly, and spoke slowly.

With her keen eye, it was easy to spot such details.

Song Yubing, standing to the side, looked completely bewildered; she was clueless about such matters.

"It doesn't matter!"

"It might be damaged, but with a bit of work, I can make it shine again!"

Ye Chen smiled, reaching out to place his hand on the Array on the Profound Armor Combat Puppet's forehead.

He began to refine the Profound Armor Combat Puppet with his consciousness.

"Repair it?"

"You know how to repair combat puppets?" Hearing this, Song Yubing's eyes widened.

These combat puppets were ancient artifacts. She had, of course, heard of the Mo family of antiquity, but that was all in the distant past.

Even if the puppets themselves had survived to this day, the methods for creating them were thought to be long lost.

Ye Chen was still just a youth. 'How could he possibly know about this?'

Although Song Yubing knew Ye Chen wasn't one for empty boasts, she was still astonished.

Before long, Ye Chen finished refining the Profound Armor Combat Puppet. With a single thought, it stood up, a dark golden light flowing across its body.

However, the light was now much dimmer than it had been initially.

In Ye Chen's estimation, the puppet's current combat power was roughly equivalent to Song Yubing's at her full strength.

"No matter."

"I'll restore you to your peak!"

With a thought, Ye Chen produced a bottle of Spiritual Spring from the Imprisoned Dragon Grotto Heaven.

The Spiritual Spring sloshed gently in the transparent bottle, emanating a dense mist of Spiritual Qi. A single breath would be enough to prolong an ordinary person's life and ward off all illness.

Song Yubing stared at Ye Chen without blinking, her beautiful eyes filled with amazement.

'Just moments ago, Ye Chen needed the grotto spirit's explanation to even understand the puppet's origins.'

'How could he now be acting so confident, as if he'd already figured out how to repair it?'

How could she have known? After inheriting the Demon God Creation Skill, Ye Chen's proficiency in the arts of Alchemy, Artifact Refining, Array formation, and more had all improved by leaps and bounds.

Repairing a combat puppet... that was simply a branch of knowledge covered by the art of Artifact Refining.

That was why Ye Chen could so effortlessly begin repairing the Profound Armor Combat Puppet.